Culinary Creations from The Last Frontier

Month: November 2012

HOLY SMOKES!!! Where to start? This is my first major food holiday as a blogger. I am feeling overwhelmed–with gratitude for my friends, family, career, opportunities, good fortune, my health, my sports, and more, but also because of all the great culinary creations to blog about. I am certain there are far more important things … [Follow your taste buds…]

Favorite meal I have eaten in a long time = this sloppy squash “lasagna”. What started as an already awesome soup turned into an absolutely heavenly lasagna of sorts with the addition of some pasta and cheese–it is a fantastic way to upcycle your soup leftovers. It is equal parts fall harvest + healthy vegetables … [Follow your taste buds…]

A few weeks ago, we made these pretzel sticks that were absolutely divine. They certainly were the best soft pretzels I have ever eaten in my entire life. We decided that an out-of-this-world combination would be to stuff the already delicious pretzel with jalapeno popper filling. That’s precisely what I decided to bring for our … [Follow your taste buds…]

Aside from peanut butter and jelly, mac and cheese, wine and chocolate, or beer and pizza, I can’t think of two things that go together more wonderfully than butternut squash and sweet potatoes. When you pair that combination with the love triangle consisting of rosemary, thyme, and sage in the form of a soup, the … [Follow your taste buds…]

With the election over, and lots of people either elated or furious, we decided to mend the fences with one of the easiest, freshest, and tastiest dinners we have had in a very, very long time. Also, this dish is green and yellow–how bipartisan! Broccoli, lemon zest, lemon juice, garlic, chicken, wheat pasta, a dash … [Follow your taste buds…]

Who knew that cauliflower and broccoli could be turned into “breadsticks”? Sounds like a magic trick. I suppose this transformation is better–and certainly healthier–than taking a blue box of noodles, adding some powder, and calling it mac and cheese (which I absolutely love, don’t get me wrong). These “breadsticks” truly taste like something straight out … [Follow your taste buds…]

We have been on a pasta kick lately–we had the turkey risotto (which isn’t a pasta, I know, but it’s close enough), the best bolognese, which we then turned into the braided spaghetti bread (that I keep dreaming about), and the pasta with balsalmic chicken, to name a few. As I type, I am eating … [Follow your taste buds…]